George Maris said that it’s the responsibility of the whole squad to share the goal scoring burden with the strikers.

The midfielder found the net for the sixth time of the season on Saturday, making him the second highest scorer - behind Uche Ikpeazu with 16.

Spreading the goals around the pitch has been a problem this season, with 18 of the U’s 39 league goals being scored by either Jabo Ibehre or Uche Ikpeazu.

Ikpeazu has been in a good run of form since Joe Dunne was appointed on an interim basis - scoring four goals in seven games - while Maris has got two and Paul Lewis, Medy Elito and Harrison Dunk have found the net once each.

And while conceding it was unlikely that he will hit his target of 10 goals for the season, the 22-year-old said that he wanted to ensure he can at least continue his run in the team.

“Its always nice to score but it’d be nicer to win,” he said.

“I don’t know how close I’m going to get to that [a 10-goal haul] but I’ll do my best with what is left.

“It’s been a good little run that I’ve had well, since before my concussion, so now I’m back in the side hopefully I can get a run of games and play for the rest of the season.

He continued: "At the start of the season that’s what we struggled with [spreading goal around].

"That was a lot of the big focus with only Uche and Jabo scoring so we focused on that in training and I think me, Jevani [Brown] and Liam [O'Neil] have all tried to chip in as much as we can.

"Paul Lewis as well and Medy Elito too, I think we’re chipping in more and hopefully that’ll help the strikers and take the weight off their shoulders."

And after a tough few fixtures against teams eyeing promotion, Maris admitted that the U's are looking at the next few matches against Crawley and Morecambe as ones that they can take points from.

"Joe just said then that that points return that we’ve got against some of the top sides is good, now we can look forward some nice – well, nothing is nice in this league – fixtures where we can hopefully pick up three points and see if we can finish the season strongly," he said.